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Comparisons of Russia’s illegitimate president, Vladimir Putin, with the Nazi Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, have become increasingly common since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe puts it, “There are plenty of differences between then [the 1930s] and now, but one shouldn’t overlook the striking similarities.”
Indeed one shouldn’t. The question of whether comparisons with Nazi Germany are merited or not is therefore worth pursuing more systematically, especially as Putin has consistently accused the “Kyiv regime” of being Nazi.
We know better than to accept Putin’s absurd standards of what constitutes Nazism, but since he’s the one who opened this particular can of worms, we are fully justified in asking whether Putin’s regime merits the Nazi label. And that means isolating the defining characteristics of the system Hitler built and asking whether, and to what degree, Putin’s system resembles Hitler’s.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4521958-is-putins-russia-a-nazi-state/
Indeed one shouldn’t. The question of whether comparisons with Nazi Germany are merited or not is therefore worth pursuing more systematically, especially as Putin has consistently accused the “Kyiv regime” of being Nazi.
We know better than to accept Putin’s absurd standards of what constitutes Nazism, but since he’s the one who opened this particular can of worms, we are fully justified in asking whether Putin’s regime merits the Nazi label. And that means isolating the defining characteristics of the system Hitler built and asking whether, and to what degree, Putin’s system resembles Hitler’s.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4521958-is-putins-russia-a-nazi-state/